Favourite US TV Comedy Series

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Razor sharp scripts, perfect characters, perfect casting and eminently watchable. Few comedies will ever better it for consistency and treating its audience as intelligent people.

That said the appearances of the supposedly English Clive (with an accent that even a Mary Poppins-era Dick Van Dyke would recoil at) and Simon (a Mancunian with a cockney accent) never fails to make my toes curl.

It's hard to describe Arrested Development without using the words dysfunctional and family in the same sentence so I'm not going to bother. Utterly bizarre and has enough characters in it for you to find someone to root for.

Its cancellation after three series probably cemented its place in comedy heaven: gone before the inevitable decline began.